Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-02
WASHINGTON, March 1, 1887.

1 Seventeen bills on the calendar to remove the charge of desertion were passed in twenty | minutes.
 The House bill providing for an additional circuit judge in the Second district was taken l up, amended and passed. A conference was asked.
 The naval appropriation bill with amend ments was reported back, ordered printed | and placed on the calendar. l The conference report on the river and harbor appropriation bill was presented by l MT. McMillan and the reading of the bill began.
 At this point Mr. Platt inquired as to the | effect of the report from the committee on privileges and elections in the Turpie case. l MT. Hoar replied at length, the substance l of his remarks being that the effect of the 1 report was to remand to the action of the Senate without prejudice any question which l any person might see fit to raise. He added that no pre- judice would arise or had arisen in consequence of the action of the commit | tee.
 Mir Edmunds insisted upon the reading of the river and harbor bill to the end and then | quilted the chamber. At the conclusion of | the reading the conference was agreed to l without division. The bill will go to the | President.
 The conference report on the consular bill was agreed to without division. l The Mexican pensions bill was referred to | the committee on appropriations. | When the Senate met after recess the gal l leries were packed. The deficiency bill was received from the House and read and refer l red to the committee on appropriations. The Senate resumed consideration of the bill ascertaining and settling private land 1 claims in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. After long discussion the bill was amended | so as to apply to other States and territories and passed without division. A conference was asked.
 The Senate then took up House bill for the allowance of certain claims reported by the l accounting officers of the treasury. The bill | is 8 long one composed mostly of small items I and covers ninety-three peges. The sums | named are principally for quartermasters stores taken by the army during the war in Missouri, West Virginia. Kentucky, Mary | land and Tennessee.
 The bill was amended leaving the Treasury | department to act in the matter of payment | on it's own rules and passed without division. A conference was asked.
 l The legislative bill was received from the House, read first and second time and re- ferred to the appropriations committee. The Senate adjourned at 11:15. HoUsE-The House met at 10 o'clock. | The Senate amendments to :he diplomatic | and consular appropriation bill were non concu1red in.
 l The bill for the payment of Mexican pen | sions was then taken up and passed. (S2,- 1 BOG, 900 is appropriated for the remainder of the fiscal year and $4. .600,000 for the next l fiscal year.)
 The conference report on the bill restrict \ ing to American citizens the ownership of real estate in the territories was agreed to. 1 The conference report on the river and | harbor appropriation bill was read and agreed ! to-yeas TT, nays 99. The report sets forth | that the Senate increased items in the House bill g, 150, 900. The conference reduced the ! sum to $1, 158, ,580. The Senate added twen- l ty-nine new items amounting to $1, ,1O3, ,000, l which the conference reduced to $S57, 800. The total Of the House bill was 7,459, ,450; | the total of the Senate bill was $10, ,62o, 1850, ! and as it comes from the conference the total | is only $9 000, ,000.
 l A petition from the Universal Peace union against appropriations for Notifications and war vessels was presented and referred.
 The conference report on the Indian ap- | propriation bill was agreed to.
 MT. Burnes, of Missouri, moved to suspend | the rules and pass the deficiency appropria- | ton bill. After the reading of the measure | MT. Cannon criticised the committee. In | the main he concurred in the resolution, but it was conspicuous for what was not in it. | It omitted an appropriation of $2, 900, 900 for services rendered by the Pacific railroads. l The Supreme court had held that that sum was due and payable. The committee re- port stated that in the suit upon which the judgment was rendered the equities were not presented. The case had been prepared by the Democratic attorney general, and if that officer by fraud or ignorance had failed to do his duty articles of impeachment should have been made by the gentleman from Mis- souri (Burnes.) The committee had also failed to appropriate $2, 800, 900 to pay judgment of the court of claims in favor of the Choc- | taws.
 Ar. Burnes, of Missouri, contended that while the Central Pacific owed the govern ! 1aDt SR 000 ha had ri iCb to hold the $2, ,000, 900 judgment to the credit of the committee until settlement day came Fraud had been committed and it was easy to turn to facts that before 8 jury would convict every member of that corporation l who had been in it's management for ten years of conduct that would make him better fitted for prison than for the ststesman's l chamber.
 Under suspension of the rules the bill wa. passed with an amendment appropriatins $37, ,000 for printing and furnishing silver certificates and legal tenders of $1 and $2 | MT. Holman moved to suspend the rules and put on it's passage the legislative appro priation bill as amended by the committee ot the whole and with certain amendm ents- making that part of the bill not considered conform to the appropriation bill of last year.
 Messrs Milliken and Cannon criticised the Democrats for being obliged to ask the pas sagesso the measure under suspension of the rules and Mir. Reed, of Maine, delivered 1 a very caustic piece of criticism of the ma jority. After reviewing the change of rules under which the bills were distributed in order to facilitate business and drawing a picture of the present backward condition of these measures he submitted that this condition must cease, that in some way the House ought to show that it does not intend the last days of the session shall be spent registering the | Ia1i 1iof, oE hot {1,o House itself will net be deprived of that voice in the affairs of the country which the constitution and good sense of the people de- mand.
 MT. Holman had but to request that vote be taken. He said: "The gentleman scolds very we'll, but I can find fshwomen who can beat him at that game" Iaughter.l | MT. Reed-The gentleman from Indiana, | and take his word for it, says he knows | fshwomen who can make better scolds than | I. admit his acquaintance on that subject and I congratulate him on his association. Naughter.)
 1 The rules were then suspended and the bill passed.
 MT. Belmont, of New York, presented the conference report on the fisheries retaliatory bill announcing disagreement He said it was a matter of public notoriety that the Senate conferees had said that the differ ences between the House and Senate on the question were irreconcilable. The majority of the House conferees did not say that the | differences were irreconcilable. They did not care to disregard the unanimously ex- pressed wish of the House on the matter. The House had declared this question to be a national one-not one to be settled by a retaliatory policy which affected Canada alone.
 Mir. Rice thought the differences between the conferees were irreconcilable. The Senate wished the retaliation to be confined to fish alone. The House wanted it to embrace absolute non-intercourss. That was the difference between them. He called on the House to rise above party and sustain the administra- tion in the manly, able and American posi- tion he had taken. He moved that the House reoede from it's amendment.
 Pending action the House took recess un til 8 o'clock. The evening session was given to the consideration of bridge bills.
 At the evening session large number of bills were passed authorizing the construction of bridges, among them the following: Across the East river between New York and Long